Jan 6, 2015

TACKLING EBOLA - Liberia seeks ayurvedic help from state

Sunitha Rao

Bengaluru:

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Doctors in Karnataka will
advise the Liberian government on using traditional Ayurveda to tackle
modern-day scourge Ebola. State health minister UT Khader confirmed
correspondence between his office and Liberian counterparts on this
subject. “A month ago, we received mails from Liberia
about it and I had discussions with Ayurveda specialists in Belagavi.
The doctors are working on it.“
According to Ayurveda, pitta
(in the form of bile juice) becomes concentrated and dries up leading to
corrosion in cell walls resulting in bleeding when a person is infected
with Ebola. Ayurvedic medicine prevents denaturing of pitta from liquid
to dried acidic form and neutralizes toxins released by the Ebola
virus.
Doctors from AyurVAID hospitals, a chain of Ayurvedic
hospitals, had sent a proposal to the Karnataka government
on possible treatment for Ebola. The government has also discussed
Ayurvedic treatment with the doctors at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of
Chest Diseases where a quarantine unit has been set up for Ebola-suspect
cases. “As of now, there's no treatment for Ebola. We discussed methods
of treatment with AyurVaid doctors. I've written to the government that
if we get an Ebola-suspect case, we'll take up a combined therapy of
allopathy and Ayurveda,“ said Dr Shashidhar Buggi, director, RGICD.
Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, blood,
contaminated medical materi
al such as needles or syringes, or even infected organisms.It's not
transmitted through the air. The symptoms show up 2-3 weeks after
contraction and include nausea, fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and
headache. In extreme cases, there could be internal bleeding and the
intestinal tract is affected.